Hi-jack fall-out

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 11 09:38:09 PDT 2001



>The immediate fallout is full funding for Star Wars. Any appeal to defense
>measures against "rogue nations" will do well.
>
>Nathan

As will other large increases in the defense budget, beefing up of echelon-like programs, et cetera, et cetera.

Consider the impact of the North Korean attack in June, 1950: it tripled the U.S. defense budget for two generations, and made possible the implementation of the strategy and force that Paul Nitze and others had proposed in NSC-68. This is likely to be a historical turning point of the same order of magnitude.

After all, it looks as though as many Americans have died this morning as died in the Korean War...

Brad Delong



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